We have an incomprehensible delay***. The Mensheviks are demanding the sanction of the Soviet of Workers' Deputies. Send immed-

* — Fraternal greetings to Ulyanov, Zinoviev. We are departing for Petrograd today, etc. Ed.

** In 1924 in the Second Lenin Collection this letter was erroneously printed as a letter from Zinoviev. Ed.

*** For more details on the delay in the departure of émigrés to Russia, see the letter of N. K. Krupskaya to V. M. Kasparov
(Lenin Collection XIII, pp. 271–272). Ed.